Wilhelmina Edelenbos
Born In: Amersfoort, Netherlands
Born: April 11th, 1918
Passed in: SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Canada
Passed on: January 14th, 2011
Wilhelmina Edelenbos of Sydney, N.S., formerly of Elginwood LTC in Richmond Hill, Ont., died peacefully at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney, on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. She was 92 years old.
Wilhelmina was born April 11, 1918, in Amersfoort, Netherlands, to Gerarda and Gijsbertus Brandsen, the eighth of 11 siblings.
On March 3, 1943, during the Second World War, she married Marinus (Martin) Edelenbos in Amersfoort and enjoyed a 43-year marriage with him until his passing in 1986.
Wilhelmina and Martin moved their family to Canada in 1960 and returned to Holland in 1962. After two years they resettled in Toronto, Canada, where they lived until Martin passed away.
Wilhelmina 'Mia' enjoyed sports including handball as a young girl, knitting and sewing, playing cards, travelling and the outdoors.
She endured the war including a period during which her husband was a prisoner of war and they managed to start a family at a time of wartime famine in the Netherlands. She often recalled with humour the happy times she shared with her siblings.
She leaves behind her dear younger sister, Riek Kreijne, Amersfoort, Netherlands; three sons, Ben, Sydney, Gerard, Belle Ewart, Ont., and Martin, Dockyard, Bermuda; five grandchildren, Martin, Carol, Glen, Tanya and Sean; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
Family and friends will be invited to a service in celebration of Wilhelmina's life planned for this summer. The family can be contacted at ben.edelenbos@hotmail.com, edbos@rogers.com and martin.edelenbos@gmail.com.
In lieu of flowers, the family wishes that donations be made to your local Parkinson's Disease foundation.
